Riverview: Blast from the past

Riverview Park opened in 1904 at Western and Belmont Avenues on the Northwest Side. It became an iconic summertime destination that captured the imagination of young and old for more than six decades. It featured what some insist was the finest rollercoaster of all time, The Bobs, a terrifying...

Riverview Park opened in 1904 at Western and Belmont Avenues on the Northwest Side. It became an iconic summertime destination that captured the imagination of young and old for more than six decades. It featured what some insist was the finest rollercoaster of all time, The Bobs, a terrifying... (Tribune archive photo)

Riverview Park in Chicago was one of the great urban amusement parks, featuring rollercoasters, a ferris wheel, a fun house and a parachute drop, Riverview; wild mouse; paratrooper; water bug; tunnel of love; flying turns; baba the elephant; boomerang; the bobs.